Science

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Does a big skull of a human being imply a higher level of his or her intellectual development? Is it true that the blind hear better than the sighted? Why do we often reproduce the same melody in our heads Scientists have found answers to these questions and clarified what is true and what is false.

Russian physiologist Leonid Kitaev-Smyk has stated that most male diseases are caused by women who adhere to provocative clothes and behaviour. As a result, the Western civilization gradually turns into the society of sexually unsatisfied men and eventually unsuccessful and physically unhealthy men, the scientist considers.

It is an open secret that ice caps of the Earth are quickly diminishing in size. Scientists calculated to which extent the surface of the World Ocean will rise if ice of high latitudes melts completely. Scientific forecasts look quite pessimistic, but nobody knows how to counter the global warming. Meanwhile, scientists from the international research group that studies the state of polar ice of the Arctic and the Antarctic found that there is a factor that saves these areas for the time being. Surprisingly, it is the ozone hole that prevents the quick melting of the Antarctic. Two decades ago the ozone hole was regarded as the major threat to the biosphere of the planet.

The world statistics show that three fourths of people suffering depressions are women and only one fourths are men. Thus, depression is a female disease? Not quite. Women are just more prone to it than men for some reasons.

Days are gradually growing longer. To the layman this means that in the northern hemisphere days are longer in summer than they are in winter. But geoscientists interpret this phrase as follows: they found that days grow longer not only in spring time.

According to a new study life expectancy in the United States is going up due to an increased number of years spent on education.

Most countries, including the United States, are taking no significant action to arrest warming, despite overwhelming scientific evidence from the Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that they should. And while a Yale/Gallup/ClearVision Institute poll last year shows that 71 percent of Americans think warming is a real problem, no change in their lifestyle can be seen.

Children can reduce their body mass index by spending less time at TV and video games, researchers from the University of Buffalo found.

A study of almost 4000 elderly men has drawn the strongest link ever between low testosterone and mood.